P Pin Oak Charity Horse Show, 28 Playhouse Theatre, 26 Prudential Insurance Company, 35 R Rice-Cherry House, 24 Rice Hotel, 33 Rice University, 11, 26, 46 Rice, William Marsh, 46 River Oaks Country Club Tennis Tournament, 28 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 34 S St. Louis _Post-Dispatch_, quoted, 3 St. Thomas University, 28 Salt Grass Trail, 8-9, 25 Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de, 41 _Satilla_, the, 19 _Scribner’s Monthly_, 12 Shamrock Hilton Hotel, 10 Sheridan, Francis C., 45 Smith, Al, 34 Smith, Robert E., 11 Soviet Encyclopedia, quoted, 1 _Standard Blue Book of Texas, The_, quoted, 25 Stokowski, Leopold, 26 Straus, Edith A., 26 Straus, Percy S., 26 Street, James, 3 Sweeney and Coombs Opera House, 27 Sweeney, James Johnson, 26 Sweet, Alexander E., 14 T _Telegraph and Texas Register_, 42 Tennessee Gas Transmission Company, 17 Texas Medical Center, 26, 28 Texas National Bank Building, 36, 43 Texas Southern University, 26 Theatre, Inc., 26 U University of Houston, 26 V Van Alstyne, William, 31 Vance, Nina, 26 Vick’s Park, 34 W Walker, L. L., 22 Williams, Amelia W., 40 White, William S., 34 Wolcott, Fred, 28 The photographs and sketches of earlier Houston reproduced in this book are from the author’s collection of Houston historical material, which includes around nine hundred pictures of Houston subjects from the 1840s to 1900. [Illustration: The woodcut shows the east side of Main Street between Congress and Preston Avenues in 1866. A photograph of the same scene appears on Page 31.] [Illustration: The woodcut shows the yards at the Southern Pacific Lines’ Grand Central Depot in 1894, when cotton was to Houston what oil was to become; the four-story structure with the tower, at the right, is the old Lawler Hotel.] Transcriber’s Notes —Silently corrected a few typos. —Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication. —In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Houston: The Feast Years, by George Melvin Fuermann (1918-2001)